Unix to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
Language: English
Published by Prentice Hall, 2006
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- Title
- Unix to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
- Author
- Walker, Artis,Skawratananond, Chakarat,Mendoza, Alfredo
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131871099
- ISBN 13
- 9780131871090
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About the Author
Alfredo (Freddie) Mendoza is an IT specialist in the Business Strategy and Enablement group within the IBM Systems and Technology division with more than 19 years in application architecture and management. He currently works with independent software vendors to port and migrate their applications into IBM cross-platform operating system offerings. Prior to his current position, Mr. Mendoza worked in IBM’s Global Services, for AIX Kernel development organizations, and as an independent consultant for different software development organizations. Mr. Mendoza has authored and coauthored several patent invention publications on thread management and software algorithms. He is the author of the book Introduction to Utility Computing and coauthor of “Design of an Enablement Process for On-Demand Applications” in the Utility Computing issue of the IBM Systems Journal.
Chakarat Skawratananond, Ph.D., is a technical consultant in the IBM Business Strategy and Enablement organization. He provides technical assistance to software vendors to bring their applications to IBM POWER processor-based systems running AIX and Linux. He has 10 years of experience in UNIX software development and has published several articles related to Linux software migration and performance tuning. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Artis Walker is a consultant in the IBM Business Strategy and Enablement group. He provides assistance in porting software vendors’ applications and databases to pSeries servers running AIX and Linux on IBM POWER. He has more than 15 years’ experience working on both Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms, including AIX and Sun Solaris. He has extensive software development experience in IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB), ORACLE, ODBC, JDBC, C, C++, and Java. He has published numerous tutorials and articles on migration and performance tuning on AIX and DB2. In addition, he is the originator and main author of a series of articles titled “IBM Embraces Open Source,” which highlights various open-source solutions and their operability and setup on AIX and Linux on the POWER platform. He holds a BA in computer science from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
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